Page Four Be Ce WeOsReKE Ra NEWS B.C. Workers’ News Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASS’N Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street Vancquver, BC. st Chairman of Editorfal Board: GEO. DRAYTON Business Mar-: J. K. GOE a — Subscription Rates — One Year $1.80 Three Months = $50 Half Year 1.00 Single Gopy, = -05 ut Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS NEWS Send AH Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Editorial Board “Send All Monies and Letters Pertatning ¢ the Business Manager o Advertising and Circulation to There’s only one thing under the Auspices of at 1.0.0.F. HALL Get Your Tickets LEECHES DEMAND GRIST TO THE MILL There are times when one must be cruel to be kind. It sticks in the gizzard of the rich bondholders to think for one moment that they will not get their pound of flesh right on time. As a mother gives her child a cuff to bring it to its senses sometimes, so Gerry McGeer throws a scare into the bondholders in order to put them wise to the breakers ahead. Gerry never intended to do the rich bondholders any harm; he only intended to protect their interests and at the same time make a name for himself as the saviour of the City of Vancouver. If he has done the first part he is satistied that he can accomplish the second part in the near future. If he has done this, then the workers and small taxpayers should also have had their eyes opened through the medium of the last week's fake fracas. At the gathering at the Hotel Vancouver there were about 500 bondholders present, but it is safe to say that ten men represented more than 75 per cent of the “holders.” For in- stance, De Farris represented British capitalists holding 17 million dollars worth of bonds. F. R. McD. Russel repre- sented United States interests. Wood Gundy Co., Hastern bondholders from Toronto, Winnipeg, and the B.C. Bond- holders Association were all represented. We could safely say that large financial houses represented more than 90 per cent of the grafters who are hollering for their pound of flesh. fie In the meantime, there are mor : eouver citizens who are without enough food, fuel, clothing. and the necessities of life to keep their families. MecGeer makes pretense of fighting in the interests of Vancouver against these vampires when atthe same time he refused to rectify the grievances of the Unemployed delegation, when last week they brought concrete cases of men starving co death in the Chinese soup kitchen run by the Anglican Mis- sion. The big capitalists who are sucking the lifes’ blood of the workers in Vancouver took last year over two and a half million dollars in interests out of Vancouver. At the same time the Provincial government reduced the school grant to Vancouver by two hundred thousand dollars. From 1931 to 1934 this same ‘Work and Wages” government re- duced grants to Social Service over three hundred thousand dollars. Every time a taxpayer pays his taxes, he can say that more than one third of it goes to British or United States capitalists for them to sail their yachts around the | Mediterranean. Ny ee ee ie The capitalist bondholders have been drawn together by McGeer to help them get their interest and protect their prin- cipal. The small taxpayers must unite with the workers and poor farmers to fight them. The only remedy for them in order to alleviate their conditions is to demand cancellation of interest payments to all owners of bonds over three thousand dollars. The fight for Full, Free Social Insurance to be paid by the big capitalists and the state should be supported by every small taxpayer. It will benefit them as much as the workers who pay no taxes. A United Front with the workers is the only remedy. BUILD THE UNITED FRONT The united front is a question that is agitating the minds of the working class today in greater and greater measure, not the united front of the reactionary leaders with the bosses put the united front of the masses of the workers, toiling farmers and smal] business men, who are face to face with bankruptcy, starvation, fascism and war. The poisonous fumes of Social Democratic chloroform are being blown away by the icy blasts of reality. The work- ers who have hitherto placed their implicit trust in reaction- ary leaders, political and trade union, are recognizing the need, long advocated by the Communists, for a solid working class united front if they are to be saved from the horrors of fascism. This united front has already taken form. It is the joint action of the workers in the reformist and the revolu- tionary organizations and the unorganized workers in strikes and unemployed struggles, mass movements against hunger, war and-fascism, uniting only on the basis of struggle against the capitalist offensive—as in the Stratford strike, the Log- gers’ strike, Dec. 7th Unemployed Campaign, the Ontario hunger march, the A. E. Smith Defence, the Congress Against War and Fascism, the United Front of the Socialists and Communists in B.C. for the enfranchisement of the Relief Camp Workers, and of all oppressed workers with the Shingle Weavers in their present strike over the heads of Roosevelt’s man Green and Green’s toady Bengough. This is the way to working class unity out of the maize of confusion and dis- organization fostered and maintained by the self-seeking horde of adventurers, racketeers, gangsters and hijackers that have muscled their way into the leadership of the labor movement. We set no conditions to the united front except that the unity shall be one of struggle for particular demands agreed upon. But this condition must be insisted upon. Unity in words alone is useless to the working class. Tools of the boss like Bengough openly reject all appeals for a united front on the basis of the daily fight for economic and political betterment of the living standards of the work- ers, but its reception by those who are involved, the workers themselves, as among the Shingle Weavers, is proof that the old gang of tricksters have almost outlived their usefulness e than ten thousand: Van- to the ruling class. Two immediate tasks the re are before the workers of B.C. today; to make a united front with the striking shingle weavers that will put a crimp in the wage-cutting plans of the mill-owners, and to support to the full the united front of the S.P.of G. and the Communist Party in the signature cam- paign to get the vote restored to the Relief Camp Workers. This is a small beginning for a perspective of working class unity, but it is a beginning. It is a move in the direc- tion of defeating the attacks launched against us by the capi- talist class and preventing the growth of fascism. We must broaden out this united front to embrace the masses of workers in the A.F.of L., the A.C.C.of L., the un- organized, on every immediate issue of today. To the struggle of employed and unemployed for Non- Contributory Social and Unemployment Insurance! To the trades unions in the fight against wage-cuts and slave codes and to fight for higher wages and better con- ditions. To the poor farmers, against starvation, foreclosures and evictions. : To the entire labor movement in the League Against War and Fascism, against the fascist program and demagogery of the Bennett government and the waryplans, and for the defense of working class rights. AbDHHHohDhHSOoSoHSHbHhSHSHhHHHHHHHHHH4H4H4HHOOOOO GV VV VV VV VORP VRS VV VO VOR OV VE OV VO TY TOM UPHILL TELLS THE “HOUSE” ABOUT RUSSIA Tom Uphill, member of the Provincial Heuse for Fernie, who was with the Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union, told the Pattulle Government Feb. 15th last that “they should adjourn the session and take a trip to Soviet Rus- sia; they would learn suf- ficient to make British Co- lumbia a heaven on earth by next Christmas.” The special correspondent at Victoria for the “B.C. Workers’ News” will inter- view Tom Uphill this com- ing week-end. Tom’s im- pressions of the Soviet Un- ion will be featured in next week’s issue. Watch for it! $ 9959909 GO9FH940494490F099H99F900900% for the Evening of March 1st—_CALL IT OFF That’s the Night of the BIG CARNIVAL DANCE — Everybody Will Be There to Win the Prizes — ... They Cost Two-bits at the Door CUT THIS OUT... PASTE IT IN YOUR HAT! to do if you’re dated up I the B.C. Workers’ News the , Sth & Main St. NOW at 15 Cents Selling Th Worker Press A Short Seer Rap! Rap! Rap Inside the house a workings class motber was busy euiting up a few vegetables to put in a stew dinner, when she heard the knocking on her front door. She put down her vegetable knife, and prepared herself for a trying ordeal with the landlord or hill collector. Just before opening the door she took a firm grip on herself, so that she might be able to held her tem- per in case the landlord or collector Sot insulting, as they very often did when unable to collect for their hills. When she opened the at ereat sense of relief came over her, as she saw 2 working man. She realized this worker was talking to her. What was this he was talking about?—a paper. But what was tle door, WORKING WOMEN UNITE As time goes on and things seem to go from bad to worse, the thought occurs “What with our women of the working class, and why is it so hard to draw them into an organized body to fight for the right, which is the right of all peo- ple to ‘a decent standard of living.’ ou During the World War, women were active in organizing, and Sacrificing, etc., to help our “heroes at the front.’ Now there is a greater war than the horror of 1914-18. This war is against the degrading system ot living, which denies our husbands a chance to maintain a family decently, and our sons and daughters a decent This war will stamp is wrong chance in life. for our sons and daughters to live a normal life. At present our Sons are herded into National Defense Camps like so many cattle, and many of their fathers fought War for democracy. Now their sons are denied the right to vote. we organized women call upon all work- ing women to join together and help in the fight for a decent living and for a yoice in our national affairs. A campaign is now on for the right of our boys in camp to vote. Get he- hind this with the same spirit which led our pioneer fathers and mothers in the struggle for the right which was theirs and which is ours too, and that is the right to work and to really live. rs Mrs. S. J. Burnaby. Acquire Knowledge! . . by reading the works which have been gained by years of ex- perience by the great working- class revolutionaries. “Rise and Fall of Austro- Marxism’ by Ernst Fisher, 10c The Workers’ Heonomic Struggle and the Fight for Workers’ Rule {by A. 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But the newsboy said: “This is a workers’ paper, the organ of the You can read in these pages of the methods that workers in different parts of the country are using to improye their conditions. This paper is not put out for the purpose profits from working: people’s labor. ook, here is “a write-up on Non-Contributory Unemployment Insurance. It tells you what this insurance is, why the contributory insurance is against our jnterest, and will worsen our condi- tions instead of bettering them. See, in Vancouver a monster demonstra- tion of workers is going to take place on Feb. 18th. You can see the paper is not a very big one, but then every word of it is written for the interest of the working class only.” “Yes,”’ replied the woman, “I shall take one copy, and iff ivs what you say it is you can come again with the next issue. We have so little money that 5 cents looks big to us, but if it is for a real workers’ paper were wrking class. of making Tm sure my husband and I will be glad to support and read it. Well, I must Here’s the 5 cgnts. ¢ was, most in is, by revolution was Clearly explained. It was also Shown how Trotsky would have led the workers into an ex- tural life of the community. He has immediately therefore a sense of fit- "EAT RICE,’ SAYS ALD. SULLIVAN (Continued from Page 1) of the Japanese workers affected by the relief cut is 20 years. WPifty per cent workers are naturalized citizens and residence for any of these some of them are returned men. Having repudiated Hon. Pearson’s letter, Saying it didn’t mean a thing, the interview some of the hibitine came to a close with relief committee The committee have wired Pearson again ex- red faces. grievance and his reply will decide what steps taken combat this standard of in order attack of the Japanese are. to be next to vicious on the living which no doubt is the wedge for further relief cuts amongst the white workers. AWORCORR. a ting into the scheme of things, and this gives a dignity, charm and poise which have a deep cultural value. He respects his elders who have so ordered things, and they respect him. Ts this true of youth under capi- talism? And as to the common talk about individualism under Communism— individuality more pro- foundly alive, that of the Soviet stu- whose is dent who contributes to the life of the or that of one of our unemployed condemned to fritter and talents nation, youths, away his vigour in a relief camp? Surely these are some of the things which could and should be discussed in Education Week. Mr. 22.2: The best and only way to fight against Fascism and War is to build the United Wront of Labor and fight tremely dangerous situation, which was what the Imperialists wanted. The evening aS a whole was very profitable it is hoped that many more Simijla evenings will be held in t : Unit 6. Meet Mr. Jorgensen gensen of Burnaby who is alleged t Have seabbed on the unemploye the Iongshore Hall for wheat trimming that ‘the Chief Despatcher—and that he wi force his way into the Union.” Whe trimming the fired. “How does Nearing get that way His remark about the Prince Wales leading the British workers either a joke, a sneer at the Briti workers, or means that the Prin both from aé financial and an educational standpoint, and he future. VANCOUVER, Feb. 5—Mr. Jor- there, was recently despatched from surplus work. He boasts is a friend of Cook—the he was despatched to work at wheat rest of the wheat trimmers (50 in number) refused to work until he was removed. He was is a Communist. When the Briti workers mareh to Socialsm, th will do so under the leadership their own party, the Commun Party, and the Prince of Wales, * gether with other members of E ropean royalty, will be looking 3 a safe place to flee to. He may to his Alberta ranch (if the €a1 dian workers haye not expropria’ it by that time); he may ga to H lywood, or he may be lost in 1 shuffle. Who cares? 15 ie) ad Er. Biges HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTING ST. The Bakery that supplied brea to the Loggers’ Strike. We Specialize in Cakes and Fancy Bread Support Those Who Support Ye ab n Capitalism.